Archive for September 24th, 2009
White Stripes Offer Rare Look Behind the Scenes in “Under Great White Northern Lights”
September 24th, 2009
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The new documentary The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights reveals as much about Canadian culture as it does about Jack and Meg White’s friendship, work ethic and music. The duo eat raw caribou, meet tribal elders, walk along frozen tundra, don traditional kilts and fire a canon — all while touring unconventional places in the summer of 2007 as director Emmett Malloy captured the experience for his film, which debuted at the ...
Phish to Perform First All-Acoustic Set at Festival 8
September 24th, 2009
Phish’s massive Festival 8 in Indio, California, October 30th through November 1st won’t just find the Vermont foursome resurrecting their Halloween tradition of covering another artist’s full album: For the first time in Phistory, the jam quartet will perform an all-acoustic set on the morning of the festival’s third day. According to Phish’s official Website, “the set will take place at the crack of noon on Sunday morning.” Saturday night, or Halloween, promises to be ...
Clapton and Beck Plan Joint London Concert in February 2010
September 24th, 2009
Photo: Mazur/WireImageThey were the biggest duo to hit Japan since Godzilla and Mothra, and now comes word guitar giants Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck are going to rock together again in 2010. The pair announced today they’ll take the stage at London’s O2 Arena on February 13th, 2010 at a joint concert that promises to be epic. As Rolling Stone reported earlier this year, Beck and Clapton shared the bill together for the first time ...
Eminem, Public Enemy, Tom Morello Bring All-Star Team-Ups to VH1’s Hip Hop Honors
September 24th, 2009
Photo: Mazur/WireImageVH1’s Hip Hop Honors don’t air until Tuesday, October 13th at 9 p.m. EST/PST, but Rolling Stone was at the big event at Brooklyn’s Howard Gilman Opera House last night. At the sixth annual Honors, a cavalcade of stars paid tribute to Def Jam Records, the mainstay that laid the blueprint for the rap industry and launched the careers of everyone from Public Enemy to Kanye West. The room was packed to the gills ...
Chris Brown Plots Return to the Stage at October 27th Jersey Gig
September 24th, 2009
Photo: Devaney/WireImage Chris Brown has scheduled his first official live performance since his February 8th altercation with Rihanna — after which he pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to probation and community labor — booking a slot at New York hip-hop station Power 105’s Powerhouse concert on October 27th at New Jersey’s Izod Center. As Rolling Stone previously reported, Brown made a cameo during Lil Wayne’s America’s Most Wanted tour stop in Virginia, filling ...
Hype Monitor: Miike Snow, Crookers, Qwel & Maker
September 24th, 2009
The Band: Miike Snow
The Buzz: Grammy-winning Swedish producers Bloodshy and Avant (who made Britney Spears’ “Toxic” rock) team up with Brooklyn vocalist Andrew Wyatt to write subtle, low-wattage electro-pop that sparkles and hums.
Listen If: You like J.U.S.T.I.C.E. and Simian Mobile Disco, but wish they’d slow down and catch their breath every once in a while.
Key Track: The soaring, soulful “Burial,” which imagines TV on the Radio as an electro outfit, indulging every last one of ...
Miley Cyrus Unveils New Video for Summer Jam “Party in the U.S.A.”
September 24th, 2009
The best moment in Miley Cyrus’ new video for her epic late-summer jam “Party in the U.S.A.” has to be when a giant American flag unfurls to the lyric “and a Britney song was on.” Spears = patriotism. Props to Idolator for nailing the clip’s inadvertent inspiration: “Jessica Simpson’s ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ ‘ and Madonna’s ‘American Pie’ — and that Chanel ad with Vanessa Paradis from 1992.”
Cyrus has said the dancey track ...
Simon Cowell Near New Deal to Stay On “Idol,” Import “X Factor”
September 24th, 2009
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Having already lost Paula Abdul, Fox isn’t taking any chances when it comes to re-signing American Idol’s star judge Simon Cowell, whose contract expires at year’s end. Cowell is reportedly negotiating a new contract that will keep him on Idol for two more seasons, plus bring his hit U.K. talent competition The X Factor to the States. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the deal, which has not been finalized or signed, could net Cowell ...
Chili Peppers’ Smith Brings the Funk With Bombastic Meatbats
September 24th, 2009
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Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith — fresh off contributing to supergroup Chickenfoot and picking up a nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — has just launched another project, the all-instrumental Bombastic Meatbats. While the group sounds similar at times to Smith’s full-time gig, there is a heavy ’70s fusion vibe (a la vintage Return to Forever) throughout their debut album, Meet the Meatbats, which came out earlier ...
Gary Numan Plans to Hit the Studio With Trent Reznor
September 24th, 2009
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Gary Numan says his collaboration with Trent Reznor will jump from the live stage to the studio: The “Cars” singer told the Quietus he plans to work with the Nine Inch Nails leader in the near future. As Rolling Stone previously reported, Numan joined Reznor onstage during Nine Inch Nails’ final Wave Goodbye concerts in Los Angeles. NIN have quit performing live, but Reznor has vowed to continue working in the studio.
“I think he’s ...